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with flame-like patches of dark colour between the varices. There 

 are two specimens in Mr. Cuming's collection, which were found on 

 sand at Sierra Leone. 



ScALARiA ACUMiNATA, Thes. Coiich. part 4. pi. 35. f. 130. Seal. 

 testd elongatd, imperforatd, acuminatd; anfractibus 15, vix pro- 

 minentibus, antice carind tenui cinctis ; varicibus creberrimis, 

 numerosis, tenuibus, cvrvilineatis ; aperturd ovali, margine tenui, 

 labio interno tortuoso ; colore pallide fulvo, fasciis duabus, und 

 prope suturam pallidd, und in medio anfractuum latd, distinctd. 



Elongated, keeled, with numerous whorls, and very numerous 

 close-set curvilinear varices. 



Found by Mr. Cuming in sandy mud at seven fathoms at Malacca. 



Mr. Gould laid before the Meeting specimens of three new s.pe- 

 cies of Mammalia, which he described as 



Halmaturus Houtmannii. Hal. Mas facie canescenti-cinered, 

 fronte rufescente, spatio inter aures auribusgue externe nigrescenti- 

 cinereis ; lined nuchali nigrescenti-fuscd ; dorso saturate fusco 

 griseo irrorato, colli corporisque lateribus, artubus anticis et pos- 

 ticis rvfis, gutture et pectore fulvescenti-albis, abdomine cinereo ; 

 caudd canescente, superne et ad apicem nigrescente. 

 Jfoemina mari assimilis, coloribus pallidioribus. Juniores nigrescenti- 



cinerei, colore apud dorsum saturatiore. 

 Adult Malė. — Face dark grizled grey, stained with rufous on the 

 forehead ; external surface of the ear and the space between the ears 

 dark blackish grey ; sides of the neck, shoulders, fore-arms, flanks 

 and hind-legs rufous, which colour is palest on the flanks ; a line 

 of obscure blackish brown passes down the back of the neck, and 

 spreads into the dark grizled brown of the back ; throat and chest 

 bufFy white ; under surface of body grey ; tail grizled grey, deepen- 

 ing into black on the upper side and the extremity ; the fur is some- 

 what short, coarse and adpressed ; the base bluish grey, succeeded 

 by rufous, then Avhite, and the extreme tip black. Weight 12^ Ibs. 

 Adult Female. — Is similar in colour to the malė, but of a more 

 uniform tint, in consequence of the rufous colouring of the shoulders 

 and flanks being paler, and the grizled appearance of the back not 

 so bright. Weight 8 Ibs. 



The young is dark grizled grey, approaching to black, particu- 

 larly along the back. Weight 5 Ibs. 



Adult Malė. Female. 



Ft. Iii. Ft. In. 



Length from the nose to the tip of the tail ..36 34 



of tail 1 2i 1 2 



of tarsus and toes, including the nail . . O 5| O 5| 



of arm and hand, including the nails ..06 04 



of face from the tip of the nose to the 1 r. j i 



base of the ear / " "^T " 4 



of ear O ^ O 2i 



